ok, I didn't play much poker after I got my whole roll frozen on Netteller for 50-100NL, and I only had like 10 bucks sitting in my PS account. Well I decided to grind out low stakes to see if I could build a roll from so little, and I have finally got up to 10 buy ins at 25NL in 10 days. Can't wait to get back to 50NL, my goal will be 15 buy-ins before I move up.


I play only 6 max, currently 25NL

perceived strengths:
playing loose aggressive (37% flop) has me winning loads of small pots, losing medium pots, but my image has me getting paid on my large pots. I probably could shave off 2-3% of my see-flop % and maintain a loose image

But despite being loose aggressive PFR/Flop I have much more careful Turn and River play, with lots of check-calls when I'm unsure where I'm at on river.
high showdown win % (I think this means I'm avoiding a lot of bad river calls) of 71%
high overall win % of 1 out of 4 pots

perceive leaks:
- Button stealing too often with marginal hands (raising next to the button to take it)
- Cbeting flops I've raised that my opponent is very likely to have hit and not fold
- calling down people too much with mid pp
- calling raises with marginal aces out of position (what ace range do you call OOP? AJ?)
- calling re-raises with easily dominated hands like KQ, AJ, mid SCs,
- limping or raising ax OOP
- Too many bluffs in multiway pots w/ PFR's, esp. too many second barrels without solid outs, but sometimes I wonder if this image gets me paid on big pots (lose medium, win big)
- attempting to bluff calling stations

Probably biggest leak:
- Tendency after I stack someone to get super aggressive and slowly donking off a decent portion of my stack feeling a 'rush' after the big win, then wondering where the hell the money went.


I think I might benefit quitting after doubling or tripling up and taking a 10-15 minute break. Whenever I do this, I come back fresh and I'm back on my A game. For some reason when I buy in I usually watch my stack slowly increase and until I hit a big hand, but after hitting a big hand I generally watch my stack go down from getting too loose and dumb, a disheartening but frequent trend. Anyone else have this problem, if so what do you/did you do? What do you think of taking a break after doubling up, unless a donk is just stacking off and rebuying?